The award winning Colorado based songstress, René Marie, who found the courage to leave an abusive marriage after 23 years, asks Americans to express in a myriad of creative forms – poetry, photography, music – what it is that they love about their country in “Voice of My Beautiful Country Contest.” The grand prize winner will win an all expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. to watch the songstress perform at one of the countries finest jazz clubs in the country, Blues Alley, on July 6, 2011.